Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.103, No.8, 3071-3073, 1995
Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein Relation in Supercooled Liquids
The Stokes-Einstein and Stokes-Einstein-Debye relations hold well in nonsupercooled liquids; however, sizeable deviations from the former appear in supercooled liquids, leading to a "decoupling" of translational diffusion from viscosity and reorientational relaxation. We attribute this breakdown and this "decoupling" to the existence of structured domains in the supercooled liquid.